Ansible Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ansible for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Puppet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Terraform, Chef and chezmoi.

Ansible alternatives are mainly Server Management Tools but may also be Package Managers or Software Installers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Ansible.

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Ansible

Freemium • Open Source

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Puppet
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Freemium • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
47 Puppet alternatives
Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.
- - Puppet is the most popular Web-based & Windows alternative to Ansible.
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Ruby
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Almost everyone thinks Puppet is a great Ansible alternative.
Salt
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
39 Salt alternatives
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.
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Configuration Management
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Almost everyone thinks Salt is a great Ansible alternative.
psi4ick
Saltstack is stateful and supports features allowing to manage thousands of systems simulataneously
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Terraform
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
16 Terraform alternatives
Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
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Multi-cloud management
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Nathaniel Waisbrot
Terraform is primarilly for creating infrastructure and Ansible is primarilly for configuring machines. Both offer tools in the other's domain and both offerings are disappointing there.

I've been fairly happy using Terraform to create VMs and then trigger Ansible to configure them.
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Guest
Terraform is for provisioning cloud devices, and Ansible is for bare-metal automation.
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Chef
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Free • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
42 Chef alternatives
Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.
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Configuration Management
Ruby
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Almost everyone thinks Chef is a great Ansible alternative.
Guest
Jenkins and the other platforms listed are more build tools rather than a server configuration tool.
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chezmoi
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
FreeBSD
OpenBSD
7 chezmoi alternatives
Dotfiles manager through a version control system.
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1. Git Supportchezmoi supports Git, a free and open source distributed version control system.
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Rudder
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Freemium • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Windows
Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Self-Hosted
CentOS
Ubuntu
Debian
Raspbian
IBM AIX
Red Hat
Slackware
13 Rudder alternatives
Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.
- - Rudder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Ansible.
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1. Ad-freeRudder doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. LightweightRudder consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsRudder can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
Vulnerability management
Configuration Management
Patch Management
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Most users think Rudder is a great Ansible alternative.
PowerShell DSC
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
5 PowerShell DSC alternatives
PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.
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PowerShell DSC Features
Configuration Management
Configuration
Unimus
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
10 Unimus alternatives
Network automation, disaster recovery, change management and configuration auditing. Unimus is extremely easy to deploy and use, and provides a wide feature-set that will help you run your network.
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Change Management
Distributed
Disaster Recovery
Configuration Management
Network activity
Multi-Tenant
Network Tools
filetailor
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
7 filetailor alternatives
filetailor is a peer-based configuration management utility for plain-text files (and directories) such as dotfiles. Files are backed up to a specified folder using filetailor, transferred to another device using tools such as Nextcloud or Syncthing, and then restored on other...
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Configuration Management
Configuration
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(R)?ex
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
25 (R)?ex alternatives
(R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management
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Configuration Management
Software Deployment
Configuration
SSH
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